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Last autumn the Senate adopted an amendment to the tariff bill, offered by New Mexico's Bronson Murray Cutting, to discard the present system whereunder Treasury agents on steamship docks seize and destroy imported books which they judge obscene or immoral (TIME. Oct. 21). Appalled at the prospect of a flood of dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read...
Work Done. Last week the Senate of the U. S.: ¶Passed (53-31) the Tariff Bill (see p. 15). ¶ Adopted a resolution authorizing payments of $25,000 each to Senators-Reject William Scott Vare and William Bauchop Wilson of Pennsylvania to cover costs of their election contest. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Judge Thomas Day Thacher of New York as U. S. Solicitor General...
After six and one-half nightmarish months, the Senate last week wound up its consideration of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. It passed the Bill 53 to 31. The measure now goes to conference between the House and Senate for adjustment of differences before President Hoover can decide whether to sign...
...transfer the power to flex tariff rates 50% from the President to the Congress...
...Adopted tariff amendments increasiftg the duty on sugar and cement (see p. 18). ¶ Passed a Bill providing $15,000 to send a U. S. delegation to the World Poultry Conference at London...